“Generalize” or “Generalise”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 4 prefer “generalize” and 3 prefer “generalise”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	generalize	generalise	Preference
United States	99	1	“generalize”
United Kingdom	35	65	“generalise”
India	72	28	“generalize”
Philippines	98	2	“generalize”
Canada	67	33	“generalize”
Australia	35	65	“generalise”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	0	0	Not enough data
New Zealand	30	70	“generalise”
Jamaica	0	0	Not enough data
Trinidad & Tobago	0	0	Not enough data
Guyana	0	0	Not enough data

Usage

Examples in context

Real sentences for each spelling. Hover an example to copy it.

“generalize”

Just as one may generalize vector spaces over a field…
…biased graph, both of which generalize the cycle matroid of a…
…by Fletcher and Anderson (1972) generalize annual movements from freshwater to…
…the novel, which most reviewers generalize to the German people in…
It should be possible to generalize these methods to equations of…
…a game does in fact generalize the concept of a game…
Many other properties of determinants generalize in some way to hyperdeterminants,…
…spatial dimension and does not generalize to higher-dimensional problems or to…
He went on to generalize the theme by stating that…
It is easy to generalize that BancNet, Expressnet EPS, and…

“generalise”

Aboriginal specialists willing to generalise believe all Aboriginal myths across…
…"composite", that he hoped could generalise the facial appearance of his…
…theory and inspired Cauer to generalise this approach into what has…
…and it was unwarranted to generalise from this view that any…
…domain specific and may not generalise to other areas; a person…
Hyperdeterminants generalise many of the properties of
(When you generalise this to a directed sets,…
…becomes large) are considered and generalise the central limit theorem for…
To generalise the algorithm to any convex…
…"It is not possible to generalise on the basis of age.

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